Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recommendations" including: 1) that federal prohibition agents be placed under the civil service; 2) that churches elect no officers who are not out-and-out Drys; 3) that Congress use the Army and Navy to enforce the Volstead Act; 4) that the three-mile limit be extended to drive rum runners farther off shore; 5) that all state and national light-wine-and-beer proposals be defeated...
Customs officials found that she had been employed as a?rum runner. Her supercargo sold his alcoholic wars on rum row and decamped with the proceeds. For three weeks the Yankton had waited his return. Then with fuel and food exhausted she came into port and surrendered to her fate. She was offered at auction to pay the wages of the crew...
...sailing with small liquor stocks. From the State Department came the suggestion that foreign ships might be allowed to bring in liquor under seal-by treaty-if foreign governments would allow us in return to extend the three mile limit to twelve miles in searching vessels and seizing rum runners...
They sailed northward, 20 Chinese, a skipper, and a crew of four? two white, two black. They reached "Rum Row" off New York. They waited several days. There was no opportunity to reach the shore undetected. A woman came out in a rum runner's launch. She went to the skipper's cabin. An interval. The skipper and the woman lowered the schooner's dory and departed. The ship's papers, the money the Chinese had paid were gone...
From the White House came word the President would recommend to the next Congress vigorous measures to prevent the " bootlegging" of inadmissible aliens. It is said that smuggling of aliens has developed into as much of a business as rum running; any inadmissible alien can enter the country for $500; streams of illicit immigrants are pouring in from Cuba, Mexico and British Columbia...